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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
Guitarist
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Brooklyn
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Robert James Smith
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I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.
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I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.
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For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
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I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
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A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
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I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway
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I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
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I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.
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I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.
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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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